The Origins of the Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution was ideological and strongly political. It was developed by Mao Zedong to combat the reemergence of old patterns of bureaucratic arrogance and careerism, convinced that drastic measures were necessary to prevent the entrenchment of new vested interests in state and party. It was utopian in its aims, but disastrous in its results. While many people do not see any origins or causes to the Cultural Revolution, …showed first 75 words of 1567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1567 total…ten years of China's history that seemed to have no cause at all. Bibliography Grasso, June, Jay Corrin, and Michael Kort. Modernization and Revolution in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc, 1997. MacFarquhac, Roderick. The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Great Britain: Columbia University Press, 1983. Pepper, Suzanne. Radicalism and Education Reform in 20th Century China. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Schirokauer, Conrad. A Brief History of Chinese Civilization. United States of America: Thomson Learning, Inc., 1991.